Going to church today in Dresden helped me realize how traditional church is here. You go in, don’t communicate a whole lot, follow a strict setup (singing hymns, passage readings, the message, and so forth). One thing that I noticed, at least it seemed to me, is that the members do not appear to be happy. Or at least they show hardly any emotion. They were not smiling much and no one got super into the hymns. They were very unemotional. With that said, the church was beautiful. And maybe it was a somber message, but I don’t know since they spoke German the whole time! Attending this church and the one the previous week in France has helped me realize how happy I am to have songs rather than hymnals.